Jill Richardson / OtherWordsJun 30, 2019
Churning out cheap rainbow swag during Pride Month is about marketing, not supporting LGBTQ+ people. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Jill Richardson / OtherWordsJun 12, 2019
Contrary to what the organizers of Boston's "Straight Pride Parade" would have you believe, straight pride is already well represented. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated PressJun 26, 2017
"We have to be as visible as possible," said one San Francisco marcher who joined a "resistance contingent" that led the city's parade. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJun 12, 2017
Though celebration was in the air at Saturday's Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., the crowd also brought other sentiments and goals to this year's event. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 17, 2016
The FBI has some explaining to do. A gun store owner in Jensen Beach, Fla., has said that he alerted the intelligence agency's West Palm Beach outpost about an incident involving a suspicious customer who turned out to be Pulse Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 14, 2016
Regulars at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., are saying that Omar Mateen, the gunman in the early Sunday-morning massacre there, was himself a regular. So there’s just one thing about his claim to be acting on behalf of Islamic State: Puritanical Muslim fundamentalists of the Islamic State sort don’t frequent gay bars. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 13, 2016
U.S. law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism,” but it probably wasn't terrorism in any useful sense of the word. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigJun 13, 2016
It only compounded the horror that the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history called forth talking points that had been composed long before 50 innocents were murdered early Sunday. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 12, 2016
The gunman who launched an attack at the Pulse bar early Sunday was identified, and the death toll broke a horrific record. President Obama addressed the nation, and state, city and law enforcement officials have commented from Orlando. (Updated late Sunday.) Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigJun 4, 2014
LGBT athletes are breaking barriers in so many sports it's hard to keep track. Google and YouTube are sharing in the pride of gay and lesbian athletes with a new video that has been living in that extremely rare ad spot on the Google home page. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-TribuneJul 1, 2013Dig deeper
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